I hold varying views about farming… For me, it’s the wider, greedy agri-business, not so much the individual farmer – making generalisations can be a double-edged weapon. Some farmers are both productive, caring and doing their best to protect the wider countryside within the scope of their earning a livelihood. Others seem to don’t care or are simply not sufficiently informed. At the end of the day, we all need to eat.
The link below to an 11 minute video shows perhaps why there is now such a dearth of wildlife across much of the English countryside in recent years, compared with years ago. I am of an age where I can recall relatively huge numbers of wild flowers, insects and birds of all types. Please copy and paste the link below and take a few minutes and watch and then pass the link on to your friends.